Greenock Creek Cabernet Sauvignon 1997 Barossa Valley, South Australia Australia

About the Winery

The grapes for this wine are from the vineyard at the front of our basement entryway situated on Radford Road at Seppeltsfield, near Greenock, and were planted in 1989. The vines crop at 1.5 to 2.0 tons every acre of land and when picked are kept separate to create a solitary domain wine. Likewise with all our grapes they are picked on phenological readiness and flavour at a baume range of 14 to 16º. This baume now and then delivers a characteristically occurring high liquor, in spite of the fact that this will rely upon occasional conditions.
The grapes are aged in substantial, shallow open fermenters, pumped over, chilled and squeezed through a basket press. The free run and pressings are kept separate through development and mixed back together one week prior to packaging. The wine is racked into barrel to experience regular MLF. The oak is all French shaved out prepared second-hand hogsheads, with the better barrels being utilized for the pressings. The wine is left to develop in barrels for an aggregate of 27 months and is generally not sifted or fined before packaging.

Winery Details

Greenock Creek Wines
54 Radford Road
Seppeltsfield, SA, 5355, Australia
Phone:   (08) 8562 8103
Website: http://www.greenockcreekwines.com.au/

About the wine

Really dark purple shading, shwoing some sign of age towards the edge. Extremely expressive nose of dark friuts (black currant/cassis, blackberries and blueberries), some elderflower berries, a touch of green bell peppers, some cedar wood and some sweet flavors. Hits the sense of taste with a full body, medium-low velvety tannins and medium (to medium-low) corrosiveness. There is huge amounts of dark fruits on the sense of taste, cassis and some sweet flavors once more. This is a really huge wine with great length. There is a touch of warmth, however its not by any stretch of the imagination irritating subsequent to the fruit is exceptionally liberal. Not the most complex wine, yet effective, adjusted and thoroughly develop now. It's drinking truly perfectly.